A study, published in the recent Aging journal, found that people who regularly drink tea are more well organised and efficient.

“Our study offers the first evidence of the positive contribution of tea drinking to brain structure,” said the study team made up of researchers from China, Singapore and the UK.

The idea of the study was to look at the long-term benefits of people aged around 70 with a tea-drinking habit that stretched back years or decades. It was originally conducted to investigate the potential protective effect of tea-drinking against age-related decline in brain organisation.

It also looked at how tea can help protect individuals against Alzheimer’s, and found evidence of herbal tea having a protective role in eight out of nine studies.

Regular tea drinker? This is how your brain works, according to science